Table 1.

Comparing the features of primary care models in Ontario, Canada.

Characteristic	Salary	FFS		Blended Capitation
	Community Health Centre (CHC)	Fee For Service (FFS)	Family Health Group (FHG)	Family Health Network (FHN)	Family Health Organization (FHO)	Family Health Team (FHT)
Year introduced	1970s	......	2004	2001	2006	2005
Group size	Group practice, size unspecified	1 Physician	Minimum of 3	Minimum of 3	Minimum 3	Group practice, size unspecified
Physician remuneration	Salary	FFS	FFS + incentives	Blended Capitationb	Blended Capitationb	Blended Capitationb
Patient enrollment	Required,	Not required	Required	Required	Required	Required
Access	Extended office hours	No specified requirements	Extended office hours, THAS	Extended office hours, THAS	Extended office hours, THAS	Extended office hours, THAS
Multidisciplinaritya	Extensive	None	None	Some	Some	Extensive

Table adapted from Russell et al. [7]. THAS = Telephone Health Advisory Service, a patient telephone advisory system for which physicians are required to provide on-call services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

^a Multidisciplinarity refers to the presence of allied health professionals (e.g., physiotherapist, social worker, dietician, pharmacist), excluding nursing staff, but including nurse practitioners

^b Blended Capitation - a base payment (adjusted for age and sex) for all enrolled patients is provided to physicians for the provision of comprehensive care along with incentives, premiums and special payments for the provision of specific primary health care services.